Wait and sea
(Photograph) - Wait and sea:the tiny island of Alderney, where a Pounds 10 million marine biology and archaeology centre is to be built. The developers are on the look-out for a consortium of...
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Suds law
Yet more academic soaps nominated by Dan Weinbren of Middlesex University including Prisoner Lecture Block H, Dr Finlay's Textbook, Last of the Summer Term, Dr Who? and Melvyn Bragg's contribution to...
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Found out
Message on door lesson No. 2. Spotted at Liverpool John Moores University: the injunction "Do not disturb", complete with rejoinder: "No need. Disturbed already."
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Ferreted out
A fine example of the dangers attaching to working with both students and animals comes from the past life of Marilyn Butler, rector of Exeter College, Oxford and a fellow in English at the same...
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Size matters
Anyone engaged in the search for Europe's most miniature institution of higher learning could do worse than look at the new Directory of Higher Education Institutions in the EFTA States, just...
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Adult education
The dilemmas facing the film censors over what certificate to give films such as Natural Born Killers and Reservoir Dogs seem to have reached science education. The Royal Society of Edinburgh is...
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Re-employment rules warning
Regulations governing the re-employment of university staff who have already received severance payments should be tightened, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee was told this week. Graeme...
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Hacking in
Glasgow University now has a new prof, or rather PrOf, created by its Press Office (geddit?). The university has set up a new service for the increasing number of hacks using email, who can now send...
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Scratch back
Annual reports have long been recognised as a means of publicising the universities issuing them - and now those generous folk at Stirling have extended the principle to publicising the staff of...
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Brunel happens
So much for Forrest Gump, move over Four Weddings and a Funeral. At last a real blockbuster appears set to hit our cinema screens. Spotted last week in the film section at Dillon's London University...
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An error of fax
Monday 10.38am. Natfhe's strident general secretary John Akker blasts off a fax with a broadside at Colleges' Employers' Forum chief executive Roger Ward over his role in the lecturers' contract...
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BMA to investigate Keele team
The British Medical Association ethics committee agreed last week to investigate controversial child protection procedures developed by a clinical research team based for the last three years at...
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Public funds safe in its hands, says FEFC
The Further Education Funding Council reassured Lord Nolan that Pounds 2.8 billion of public money was safe in its hands, when it came before his committee on standards in public life on Tuesday....
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Negotiator resigns in internal Natfhe split
The chairman of the college lecturers' national negotiating team resigned this week after his union, Natfhe, refused to agree to conciliation with employers. Peter Latham, like Natfhe general...
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East European studies under review
Specialist provision in East European and former Soviet Union studies is to be the subject of an inquiry by the higher education funding councils. The Higher Education Funding Council for England...